Funny reasons you may have been cut
 

We always talk about what houses we would be in if we weren't in XYZ and funny rush stories, but we never hear from the rushees why they might have been cut. I don't want this to be a negative thread, so don't come on and say you were cut bc they were mean.
example of my reasons: i think DZ cut me because I gulped my drink bc I was so thirsty whereas everyone else sipped theres.
I told my rho chi that one house didn't seem to like me, but that's ok I didn't like them--oops she was in that house.
I hope you get the idea of the thread and like it. I just thought it could provide laughs instead of hurt that being cut can do! If you disagreee I will erase this topic.

I can't believe I'm telling this. . .
 

When I rushed, we had 4 days of parties, and noone was cut until it was Pref day. On the 1st day, it was called Informational Parties, where you go for 30 mins to each group to get the basic info (dues, etc). The dress listed on the schedule was "Casual". WELLL......

My roommate and I were at another meeting (we were in Band) and barely made it to the beginning of rush on time. We were both in T-shirts and shorts. When we arrived, EVERYONE else was in SUNDRESSES!!!!!:eek: (to me, that is NOT "casual"!!!) Anyway, we went thru all 4 parties that way. Although there were no cuts that night, I could definitely tell that I was, um, "dismissed" by one of the sororities who always appeared to have the more wealthier sisters (dressed nice, new cars, etc). I pretty much got cold shouldered for the rest of the week (and wasn't invited to pref).

It all worked out though, because I really learned where I was accepted for me, faults and all. . . AST!! (And next year they added an extra day to rush where all the PMN's met with Rho Chi's to learn all about rush BEFORE it happened. I don't think that was by accident!!!:rolleyes: )

As far as this thread. . .I think it's a great idea. We are the ones responsible for whether or not it becomes negative. If you don't want it to be negative, don't post anything negative!!!! (And like me, you can choose not to reveal the groups that cut you, especially if you think it was for a petty reason)

One of my sisters once told me that while she was at a rush party at Theta, she asked the girl she was talking to what the sisters' nametags were supposed to be, only to be met with the reply "Um, that's a Theta." She hadn't recognized the Greek letter, and has always thought since then that that was why she was released!

This is a little off topic, but I was talking to a PNM last year who was my total Rush Crush, and she made a comment about how she had been nervous about her freshman roommate because she "didn't want to get stuck with some britney spears fan." Everyone in my chapter knows I'm a TOTAL Britney lover and usually would have been offended, but she was so awesome that I let that one slide :p She was my pref baby and is now a sister, and I still joke around with her that I should have dropped her for that comment-- as if I would have! She rocks!

*C*

I have a kinda funny rush story along those lines. You know how everyone asks the same questions and gives the same answers for the first couple of days... Where are you from? What's your major? Where do you live? Whose your roomate? Well, a girl at one house was apparently attempting to be original and she asked me how my dog was doing! Original question but unfortunately I didn't even have a dog at the time.

Anyway, next party I went to I started telling this girl about what had happened at the last house and how strange I thought that was. Naturally, ripping on another house didn't exactly endear me to that one. Heading into round three I cut the first house and the second house cut me. Oh well, it's kinda funny now.

I was at one party at the predominantly christian sorority (even though it's NPC they are extremely religous group of girls) and the girl who was taking me around said that "Jesus would lead me to where i needed to be", i then rolled my eyes. Guess she didn't like that too much. i wasn't invited back! oh well!

one other house i was cut from, i think the fact that i told the girl who was taking me around that i was petrified of snakes and anything to do with snakes (sorry all you sk's) and she gave me a really dirty look when i said that...i was oblivious that that was their local/national symbol. i thought their symbol was just a dove! but duh, they had snakes around their house!

but i found where i wanted to be the most! with all my alpha xi's!

At one of the parties I think it was the second round I made the comment (not thinking) "You look just like my grandma" 2 seconds after I meet her, because I was caught off guard that they looked so alike. After I said it I felt terrible and tried to explain that she does (not kindding) look just like my grandma when she was her age, they even have the same name (again I'm not kidding). Needless to say she was not happy and not as sweet as Grandma, which is great because that was one of my least favorite houses.

It makes for a funny workshop story though when we go over stuff NOT to say! (i.e. think before you blurt out something stupid) :D

before I rushed this guy asked me which house I wanted to join--knowing nothing about greek letters I said ." I want to join the AZ house." He said,"Huh?" I said see that white house over there..." " Um that's Delta Zeta -- don't you know the Greek letter for D?" OOPS!! Oh well at least I knew the houses before I rushed.

Well, I didn't get cut from any houses when i went through rush, but I do have a funny story about a girl I cut who was rushing. I was house touring this girl and the whole time she was sucking on a lollipop. I didn't have a problem with the fact she had a lollipop with her until she started licking it in um lets say "sexual ways". It really kind of freaked me out even more so when she started to tell me about her oral fixation and why sour apple lollipops where the best. It turns out that she had done this same thing at at least 1 other house because after rush ended my really good friend who is a alpha phi asked me if I met the girl with the lollipop. I guess they got the same impression of her that I did. I kind fo wonder is she realizes that is why both our houses cut her?

Hey MVP4GPB I am a HUGE Britney fan too!! Yea everyone I know makes fun of me. Wow thats a funny story. I can't wait to see what happens in the fall during rush. I know a girl will say something like: "I hate all those lil teeney bopper I love britney princesses" or something to that extent and I will be like hmmm thats nice (your cut)! LOL. Nah I would do the same as you. Wow you like britney and your from NJ (i saw your post on the the thread I started) just like me!! :) plus your a gamma phi beta my other fave sorority next to my own (they live next door to us).

This is a good idea for a thread. Mine isn't that bad, and I don't even know if this is why the group cut me, but I was at ABC sorority and the girl was taking me around the house and we went into the t.v. room. She commented on how her favorite show was friends and asked me what mine was. Without really thinking I gave my honest answer. "Buffy the Vampire slayer." :rolleyes: As soon as I said it I was like WTF? I mean it is a weird show and she probably thought I was a weirdo for watching it. I swear that at least factored into them cutting me.

I have the dubious distinction of being one of only 3 or 4 women not invited back by ASA to pref night, when they participated in formal rush for the first time at my school. I really have no clue at all why I was cut...I have a decent personality (IMHO), my highschool grades were good, I have a neat appearance, and was pretty involved in extra-curriculars. The only thing I can think of, is that the day Panhellenic took our pictures for rush, I wore these trousers that had pink and green roses all over them (it was the '80s--perfectly acceptable then!). Kind of embarrassing to be one of the only people not to get invited back to all 3 chapters for Pref night, but that's OK....I already knew where I wanted to be!

one house..
 

i think that i might have been cut from a house when i said that my face was sore from smiling all day.. it was one of the last houses i visited that day (the first day, so i had visited quite a few houses) and i had been smiling (having fun meeting people) all day... i think she got mad at me

My first name is Delia, and when I went through rush the dELIA*S catalog had just become the big thing on the West Coast. At EVERY chapter (even Alpha Phi), whenever I was introduced to a girl her immediate response was 'Oh Like the catalog?!?'. I had this name long before the catalog dammit! :) Anyway, it started wearing on my nerves and finally, at the last party on this particular day, some unsuspecting women used this line and I snapped -

"YES Like the catalog, SHEESH already!"
I guess I said it a little too loud and with too much attitude because all the women around me stopped talking to look at me and the person I was talking to got this horrified look on her face. I wanted to get out of there ASAP. Didn't have to think twice about that - they dropped me that round!

:cool:

DRau-- similar to your story...my name is maggie, i am from springfield....somehow people put those two things together and say things like "oh like the simpsons". So by the end of rush they were all calling me maggie simpson...and thought my last name was really simpson. i dont even like the simpsons!!!

LOL Didn't you just want to slap the next person that said it ;)!?!

I was not cut. :cool: :)

i just smiled and bit my tounge alot. esp. when this ditzy girl was going on and on about it. i was like "hello! rush me!" and she kept saying stupid things like "do you have a quicky mart?, do you have a brother who gets in lots of trouble?" or "you have blonde hair too!". I just wanted to yell at the girl "yes, i have blonde hair, i suck on a pacifier all the time, my mother has blue hair and wears a green strapless dress all the time, and my father works at a nuclear power plant!" it was so hard to keep my mouth shut. I was kinda glad when they dropped me even if they are a really good house. I just don't know if I could have been sisters with a girl who ACTUALLY thought i was maggie simpson.

Oh this is embarassing.

Ok, so when I get nervous I do and say really stupid things. So, my first day of rush I was talking to this girl and she aksed me what I had done over the week. I was really nervous because I really wanted the sorority I was at, so I said, "I taught my friend how to polka!" Strangely, it was true. I know how to polka and I think it's fun, and I had taught my friend how the night before (you should try it, really). She said, "oh that's cool." I in my overzealousness asked her, "Do you want me to teach you too?" Without an answer I tried to teach her how to polka and we ended up doing a few steps around the rush room. The worst part was then when the next girl asked what we were doing I offered to teach her too! They were the only sorority that cut me. What was I thinking?!?!

Well, I was really nervous in the KD room second day (the first day that you get to sit and talk to the girls) and I was afraid I was going to come across as a dork or a loser or something... but I came across opposite, instead. First, I cussed. Yup, the first sentence out of my mouth included a cuss word. I actually told one of the DZ's about it later on that week (I didn't mention which sorority, just said that it was a sorority known for being "ladylike") and she laughed and said, "Yeah, I think I know the sorority you're talking about, and they probably WOULD cut you for that!" She wasn't being mean, we were just laughing about my stupidity. Then, later on, I told the girl that it doesn't matter what sorority you're in, as long as you're greek (wrong for SOOO many reasons). I also hugged one of the girls on my way in (probably made me come across as a dork). Then, we were talking about how I felt pressured to go KD because my ex was KA (KA-KD in South Carolina= VERY tight fraternity/sorority relations) and she asked me if we had a hard break-up (uh, yeah we did!) and I almost started crying!!!!! ARGH!!! I think she could tell that I was upset, because she changed the subject. Yeah, was not surprised at ALL when I didn't get invited back to third round. Other than that, the only funny reason I got cut (which wasn't so funny) was because I told a girl straight out that I knew I wouldn't be invited back because I was a sophomore. Her jaw just kind of dropped, and I could practically see my name being scratched off the list. (This wasn't KD, this was another sorority)

Phisigsigchic~ Yay for jersey girl britney fans! Way to represent :D

We also got a girl a few years ago who just randomly started crying in the middle of one of the parties... she wasn't talking about anything emotional AT ALL, I think she had just been asked what classes she was taking or something and she just lost it. Turns out that she was rushing for a second time after a disasterous freshman rush and was a wreck--to the point where she had these crying fits in all the parties. Later on, one of my sisters was asked to describe her and all she could come up with was "emotionally unstable".... which seemed pretty suitable, as sad as the whole situation was!

*C*

Here's my story....

My older sister went to the same college that I go to now, and she graduated a few years ago. She was in a sorority while she went there, and when I went to rush parties at that house, I just loved it. The first 2 days, I was rushed by really great people and I had a blast. But on the 3rd day, I was talking to the girl who was rushing me and everything seemed to be going along smoothly. The day after that one would be pref day, and when my sister rushed that house, she told me the basic plot of the skit-type-thing they did for pref day, and we both thought it was really cute. So, I asked the girl who rushed me if they were still using that idea, and she said yes without making it seem like I had asked an inappropriate question. Then, the next day, I got my list of houses that I was supposed to go to for prefs, and that house wasn't on it. I had never intended to sound like I thought I would automatically be asked back there or anything of that nature, but I guess maybe she interpreted it that way or something. Funny how an innocent comment can get blown out of proportion and decide your future, eh? (But come on, if they're still using the same skit they used literally 10 years ago, I probably wouldn't have fit in there anyway. I believe change is a good thing). lol. And now that I know girls in their new pledge class at that house, as much as I like those girls and know how well they fit in there, it makes me realize that I found the perfect home for me. Thank God!

coulda been easily avoided....
 

I think I would have been invited back to the houses that were originally my top choices if I hadn't made a few stupid mistakes. I was ridiculously nervous at KKG because everyone kept saying how they're all about prestige and looks (which is soo not true and I love my Kappa friends who are all sweet down to earth girls) but you know how it is when people say stupid stuff and you're already nervous to start with and the nervousness just gets worse! I was just completely a nervous wreck there and felt like i was the biggest dork and completely clammed up instead of being my usual fun self. The girls probably thought that I was either completely bored or that i was boring! The next day I missed dinner prior to rush evening. I didn't know that I am hypoglycemic(sp?) and an hour into the night, I was on the verge of fainting. I didn't mind so much at the first house bc thier girls have always been awfully mean to me and i was just surprised I had been invited back. Two hours later, I was at AXO- my top choice and i was just barely holding it together. Needless to say, I was completely incoherent. I just kept saying how I loved the house and the girls and how it was the only house I wanted-but probably came across as babbling and flakey. I feel bad for the girl who I talked with because she probably thought I was a moron and I felt bad for my friend in the house because she was pulling so hard for me to be her sister.

I love my Alpha Gams :D
As for my condition....I learned my lesson later in the year. I had moved into the AGD house after living with the ugliest b*tchiest girl on campus 1st semester. Late into the semester, I had pulled an all nighter and avoided eating bc it was late-PLUS I had been sick ALL semester. The next morning, I came downstairs to lunch bc it was grilled cheese & tomato soup day. The next thing I knew, I was flat on my back on the floor with a *very concerned Jessica* above me.(Sorry Jess for scaring the crap out of you!) I passed out again and woke to find the ambulance people poking and prodding at me. I was at the ER all day too (Thank you Hollie for saving me from my insane mother harping and ranting at me!) Now all my sisters make sure I eat and make sure I am healthy. (BTW, we had firetrucks and ambulances at teh house 3 days in a row that week.)

In my case, I think my quote below is literally and figuratively true...

Chalk this up to being a freshman that didn't know any better.

I was at ADII and as most of you know they were founded on christian values, the sister that was rushing me had just finished telling me about that and... Having just graduated from a private parochial school, and having been pretty involved in the church I asked if they had Bible studies and stuff. My guess is that I came off sounding really religious or something (not that that's bad) and that wasn't what they were looking for. Oh well, it worked out in the end cause I ended up where I belonged :)

:o Oh gosh!
When I was going through rush we had two parties the first day, and the next seven the following day! That's a lot of parties to continually have to look smiley and perky! My last two were Theta and Gamma Phi. At Theta, the girls were really nice and I had heard nice things about them, though I was already pretty keen on APhi and Pi Phi. Anyway, I was talking to this Theta about how I'm a ballet dancer, and she asked me about what pointe shoes were made of. I was pretty delirious at this point from so much talking and no eating, and when I told her they were made of wood I wouldn't let it go. I was like yeah, "pointe shoes are great. you can carry them around instead of mace. they'd make great weapons if someone tried to mug you." I don't know what I was thinking. I was laughing and she was too, but I think she was laughing more at me. Then Gamma Phi was last, and all the girls were sitting on the floor and the rushees sat on chairs. I was so exhausted at this point, I was like, "How come you are aren't sitting on chairs? Don't you have enough?" I think it came out really snotty, and I don't think the gamma phi really liked it. In the end it didn't matter though. I dropped both those houses, before I found out they dropped me. In the end it was between Pi Phi and APhi, two of the top four houses. I flipped a coin, and capital L - Love where I am now!!:)

I didn't know anything about any of the sororities going into rush except for the reputations of 2. During the first rounds of rush I was sitting in the suite of one of them and all I could think of was how I had been told these girls were the rich, beautiful girls. So I got all nervous and totally lost my mind momentarily and started going on and on about how I love spending money, I get it from my daddy, my friends and I were considered princesses in high school-oh good lord, it got worse and worse the more I realized how ridiculous I sounded! That definitnely had something to do with my getting cut! :eek:

me either:)

I also rushed before panhel was on our campus, and D PHi E was the only sorority I was interested in. Had I not get in, I wouldn't have pledged at all.

I'm amazed at some of the stories I'm reading here, the east coast is really different than the south & western houses.

Oh, and I would never be embarrased to say that Buffy is my favorite show, and if someone had a problem with it, too bad on them. I'm certainly not going to pretend to be someone I'm not to make someone like me.

Well, I go to a school with 15 NPC sororities, so rush is long a grueling. plus it's florida, and florida in august is not fun. well, it was the last house of the first day, and I was exhausted. all day, the first thing grils would do was offer to take my purse for me. So when we got to the pi phi house at the end of the day, I was so tired that I kind of just shoved my stuff in the face of the girl rushing me. Looking back, I probably would have thought that was majorly rude if someone did that to me. I think that had something to do with not getting asked back there.

I was cut because....
 

....it was the mid 1970's, Vietnam was ending and I was in ROTC at Southern Cal! I did not say anything about it voluntarily as I knew many students at that time were anti-war & anti military...but at one house, the gal whose turn it was to chat with me kept pressing about what had I done over the summer, blah blah blah and I had been vague about having been out of town and then I admitted I was camping and she kept going on about camps and being a counselor and all that stuff and she finally asked what kind of camp I had been to and I just could not beat around the bush any more :mad: and I told her: "It was ROTC summer camp, we marched in formation, shot guns, did survival techniques, flew in airplanes & helicopters, and stuff like that..." The horrified gasp that emitted from her mouth and the look of scorn on her face told me that I would be dropped ASAP from that house and of course I was! Oh well, I ended up in the BEST sorority anyways & the one I really wanted all along -- The Gamma Phis could have cared less that I was in ROTC, in fact they were proud of me -- women made up less than 1% of all cadets in ROTC at that time at USC....so it showed that I had leadership & organization skills plus, I was also pretty involved at USC (I did not rush as a Freshman) -- I was on swim team and in the official University Hostess club, I worked at the bookstore and was a Flag Girl in the fantastic Trojan Marching band (of course, many thought of THAT as another geeky thing about me --LOL!) I retired in 1998 after a 22 year Air Force career -- I am very heavily involved with Gamma Phi Beta and always will be!:D

I don't have any stories b/c I was COB'd. :( But it's okay b/c I love where I am and had I gone through formal recruitment, it would have taken several days to join the sorority I was most interested in -- Alpha Phi. :D I tend to be impatient, so COB'ing was the best thing for me. ;)

saving the "best" for last
 

When I was a naive freshman, I rushed and became nearly obsessed with an organization on my campus (which I refuse to mention now for bitter rivalry reasons!), and was doing all that I could to fit in and make the best impression. When it came time for open house (2 hour time slot to visit the houses you were invited back to) I was late starting and ended up getting caught up in one of my least favorite houses (they weren't all that established on my campus) talking to some girl from my home town. I ended up running to my dream house and barely making it before the doors closed. I was devastated when I opened my envelop and their bid wasn't inside. But something about theb uttrflies on the bid from teh house that was newer struck me and so I entered their room to greet my 11 other pledge sisters! (we were the 2nd largest pledge class that spring!)
It's funny I didn't get a bid from them and I wondered why until I spoke with an active (from their org.) and found out they thought I wasn't interested in their org. since I didn't even make a point to greet their women at open house.:eek:
Needless to say, I was surprised, but Oh My Goodness did things turn out for the best. My sisters are my family on campus, and the sister I got caught up talking to ended up one of my closest friends, and once I saw the girls the org. I thought I wanted chose, it intensified my conviction that things happen for a reason and they end up for the better in the end.:p
It's funny how we don't always know what's best for us...trusting fate is not so bad!:D

I wanted to be in Pi Phi ever since the summer before school started because I talked to an active from an Illinois chapter. Well, recruitment was after Christmas break and I narrowed it down to AXO and Pi Phi and on Pref night I was talking to some girl at Pi Phi about our families. This was a point in my life when I started remembering a lot of painful memories and (finally) putting two and two together. So I started talking about how my brother was when I was little (I guess it was good I was comfortable talking about this to strangers... maybe I just needed to get it out to anyone, no matter who) but in all my rage about one stupid/funny incident I called my brother a dick and all of a sudden I felt so out of place. I never found out if they were going to offer me a bid but because I went to AXO and felt so at home there. I'm glad I ended up where I did, but I still wonder how bad of an impression I made on that active. :confused:

i had a break on skit night (i wasn't scheduled to be at a house for about 45 min) so I went back to my dorm and wathced Friends. it was the episode where they found out who the father of rachel's baby was, and i was soooooo excited after i saw it that at the DZ house (the house i went to immediately afterwards) it was all i could talk about. It turns out that the DZ i was talking to was a huge Friends fan and did not even want a hint of what happened. i think i reavealed a little too much about it, and I could tell that i ruined it for her. i was not asked back the next day, and i think that may have had something to do with it.

This isn't about me being cut, but it's funny and in the vein...

I was rush chair at my house and PanHel rules were very strict. No rushee could set foot outside of a chapter house with ANYTHING! So I manned the doors at the end of every party to make sure, but there was never a problem...UNTIL

As this one rushee was leaving she had a handful of candy mints. I tried to tell her she couldn't leave with them (Rho Chis are at the door, too, "policing"), but she didn't get it. I actually had to step out the door and block it so she wouldn't leave. But she wanted them so much she stood there and stuffed them all in her mouth at once!!! We called her Mint Girl for the rest of Rush! But she was at our Pref, so we obviously didn't mind it that much! She went another house, though...

Kathy
Chi Omega - Western Mich. Univ.

Suthrn,

What GLO are you a member of and where?

PS- Love your name

My own faux pas:

We had half-hour Open Houses, and I was at the 10th of 11 houses. The last 3 houses had given brown paper bags & crayons to the rushees to decorate as puppets for a philanthropic project. I was burned out, and frankly, thought that it was a silly project to begin with, let alone the third time. So, when the 9th floor sister rushing me handing me a bag & crayons, I politely declined, saying, "I thought it would be refreshing to get to know each other instead." Obviously, she disagreed, because I wasn't invited back.

Our rush was very long - a month! When a rushee friend of mine commented to me at a different GLO's party that "is this the most boring party you've ever endured?" I giggled - and a sister overheard. Oops.

All ended up well, though, since I had decided on Day One that my real home was with ADPi!

honeychile

There was this one PNM who came to our house on the first day. We had rose petals out with some of our displays and this girl asked one of our activies if she had ever tasted a rose petal. Then she proceeded to pick up a rose petal, taste it, and then put it back on our table. If that's not odd, what is? :) :) Anyways, after that day we didn't see her again!

Not my own personal story, but my roomie cut one house because the active rushing her spent the entire party telling my friend how to make a rhubarb pie!

She ended up going Alpha Gam and was very happy (and no cooking lessons)

Oh the horror stories I could tell from Rush :eek: I have way too many but I"ll just tell a couple now.
When I went through Rush, I had the stomach flu. I felt like sh$% and after the 6th house (there were 13) I was like, OMG get me out of here. I was at a very "rich & snobby" house who kept asking me what my dad did and where we usually went on vacation. Finally, I snapped, "Do you want to know how many houses my daddy has, too?!" The girl got all pissed off and was like, I'm gonna go get you some water.....I wasn't too suprised when I wasn't invited back.

But definitely the other side of Rush has given me stories I'll tell for the rest of my life. My soph year, there was a girl who was like, I luv AX so much, I really really wanna be your sister, you are like the coolest person I've met today, etc....can I go to the bathroom??" A Rho Chi took her to the bathroom, and she CLIMBED OUT OF A WINDOW AND RAN ACROSS OUR LAWN!! She told her PX later that she felt 'freaked out by our wallpaper'. Ohhhh kayyyyyy..........

I also had a girl tell me that unless AX could help further her belly dancing career, she just didn't feel right joining. I didn't really see where we could help her out with that.

Re: I was cut because....
 

My online mom rules! I too did not get cut, because I only rushed Gamma Phi Beta. I'm glad I rushed as a sophomore because my freshman year we had formal recruitment and at the time I think I might hae dropped my house and been in one of the (hazing) locals that were recruiting me hard.

Re: I didn't get cut but.....
 

What GLO did you join?